Weblog of Ed – since 1999 – 10000+ posts

Every computer attached to the Internet has a number. For instance, this site has the number “[64.13.232.128]”. Via a translation table (DNS) this is shown in your browser as “leau.net”, a name one can hire for some time to attach to a certain number.

But some numbers are special. Number which are in the range 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255 for instance are reserved for internal network use. This means that your local laptop, router and other computers at home have often numbers in this range (there are other options).

So web sites with this number should never be present in any search engine or other meta site archiving tools.

However, when I reinstalled the SeoQuake toolbar (after installing Firefox 3 on my U3 drive) I noticed that remarkable these internal sites DO have entries in Google, in Yahoo, in MSN, which, I think, is a bug. Think about it: spidering links to internal pages and showing them in a public search engine is useless. Google has done his job well and doesnt show information on the sites however MSN does AND this does make it interesting to see what people have running at home. It is ALSO a security risk since IF there really is a link, clicking it could pass parameters to the sites you run at home at internal LAN addresses (a lot of people seem to run private mailservers…).

In theory I could place here a gazillion banner ads and ask for your e-mail adddress to send you interesting news letters to sell it for datamining and marketing.
So i'm still working on that one because money is the most important thing in the world.
For the hundreds of people e-mailing me banner exchanges, paid ads, to make the site better "seo"-d : they are still in my todo box because the whole purpose of a weblog is of course to make money.